Can't trust government on guns

A huge number of Americans would find it easy to agree with Jeff Nugent instead of his brother Ted on the need for federal background checks for gun purchasers, if we found it remotely possible to believe that the federal government could be trusted not to turn that information into a preconfiscation database. After Benghazi, the IRS targeting tea party groups, the Justice Department's Mexican gun running scheme, and now the Justice Department's confiscation of AP reporters' private phone records, I'm not sure even Rip Van Winkle would buy into that.

Go back to sleep, Jeff. If Ted can't awaken you, I'm pretty sure the rest of us can't either.

Bill Strange

New Palestine

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Can't trust government on guns

A huge number of Americans would find it easy to agree with Jeff Nugent instead of his brother Ted on the need for federal background checks for gun purchasers, if we found it remotely possible to